yeah the Celtics FG% is like 85% when they don't involve him at all
― frogbs, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:11 (two years ago) link
relentless
― Clay, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:12 (two years ago) link
derrick white is having an unbelievable game
― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:12 (two years ago) link
i have no idea what makes him tick but may this continue for 6 more games
Jaylen Brown not too shabby either
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 3 June 2022 03:16 (two years ago) link
Celtics getting Horford back was like the greatest front office move of the 21st century
― frogbs, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:16 (two years ago) link
amazing it was seen, from the outside at least, as purely dumping kembas contract at the time
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
Man this has the making of a tremendous choke job.
― Gianni Fursace (Leee), Friday, 3 June 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
Horford first player in history to sink 6 threes in a Finals debut
― frogbs, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
Insurrection!
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 3 June 2022 03:20 (two years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:22 (two years ago) link
the peoples comeback
Unbelievable
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 3 June 2022 03:22 (two years ago) link
30 point swing
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 3 June 2022 03:24 (two years ago) link
i knew they still had a shot when they were down but was not expecting this
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:24 (two years ago) link
series narratives are mostly nonsense in this high-variance era but this game should put people on notice. the celtics coming back from multiple double-digit deficits is a really important takeaway.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:25 (two years ago) link
Draymond's face right now is like "I'm seein' double here! Four Fergies!!"
― frogbs, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:25 (two years ago) link
Respect to the Celtics. Their passing this quarter has been phenomenal. Defense and shooting, too, but the passing is just beautiful.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 3 June 2022 03:25 (two years ago) link
Maybe the worst draymond playoff game I’ve ever witnessed
― Spottie, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:26 (two years ago) link
he had the best +/- on the team though!
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:28 (two years ago) link
the passing is just beautiful.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, June 2, 2022 11:25 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
theyve been playing a ton of switchy paint packing defenses so far this playoffs but with the way the warriors play they might be able to get them in rotation and get back to the high level ball movement that made them the best offense for the ~second half of the season
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:30 (two years ago) link
dubs choked rip
― Clay, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:31 (two years ago) link
C's aren't the Mavs.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 3 June 2022 03:38 (two years ago) link
grinders
https://i.imgur.com/7VoKxEN.png
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:44 (two years ago) link
Turns out shooting like 90% on threes and playing great d for the final quarter is a good strategy for winning
― Spottie, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:44 (two years ago) link
hell yea
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Friday, 3 June 2022 03:45 (two years ago) link
they should just keep shooting 90% imo the rest will take care of itself
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:45 (two years ago) link
40-16 4th quarter
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:46 (two years ago) link
if the celtics can play pritchard without the warriors victimizing him like they did tonight thats good for them
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:53 (two years ago) link
The Boston Celtics are the first team in NBA history to win a Finals game by double digits after trailing by double digits entering the 4th quarter.Their win probability fell as low as 4 percent when they were down 15 near the end of the 3rd quarter. pic.twitter.com/ce28lV5lsI— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) June 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 03:55 (two years ago) link
hard to account for that shooting but if you take a step back the fourth quarter was way harder for the warriors than it was the celtics, putting the shooting aside. the warriors had a really hard time generating offense where as the celtics did not really. even if they miss half those threes they still win. the gap in athleticism was pretty stark in the fourth esp when the warriors had the ball. steph gave the dubs 34-5-5, might be his best game of the playoffs and he might have to be that good 3-4 more times if the dubs are gonna win the series. if you look at the celtics losses in the last 2 rounds almost all of them featured a herculean effort by someone on the other team. in five of their six losses jimmy had 40 twice, giannis had 40 twice, and bam played the best game of his life. game one vs the bucks they just kinda played like crap. dubs might need one of those clearly the warriors are gonna need way more from poole bcuz klay is only going to be a standstill shooter in this series and they need someone else who can get buckets in one on one situations. idk if steph has it in him to do be the only one. that’s asking a lot of any player vs boston’s D, which has been borne out in the previous series
― J0rdan S., Friday, 3 June 2022 06:08 (two years ago) link
Starting the 4th with two non shooters and no Steph isn’t gonna work against this team.
― Spottie, Friday, 3 June 2022 06:52 (two years ago) link
omg @ horf doing draymond’s “muscle man” bicep pose after his and-1 in garbage time.incredible comeback even more incredible that they did it without tatum scoring. i always thought the c’s best chance of winning this series was to steal game 1 in california, before the warriors had a chance to get used to their physicality.first quarter the c’s offense felt v stagnant. how many times did we see tatum drive into a wall and kick to smart for a 3? that can’t be plan A.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 3 June 2022 10:41 (two years ago) link
one interesting thing for the rest of the series is the celtics played much better in this game with only one big, the dubs were finding too many holes in their d with two bigs trying to navigate all that movement, they had a good run with just horf in the first half then played small the whole 4th starting with rob then subbing horf, only problem is they dont have enough perimeter players to play that way all game unless they want to play nesmith who is not very good but can play some d idk, just might not be grants series its asking a lot of him to be chasing the dubs guys around screens
conversely idk if the dubs draymond at center lineups can play enough defense to be viable, they ran with him there almost the whole 4th and the celtics were getting whatever they wanted, the thing that made their old death lineups so great was that they could really defend theyd turn you over then hit a three two seconds later, now theyre putting iggy porter poole and post injury klay out there none of whom are great defenders and theyre small playing a physical team that still has good size even when theyre small, think they might need to look at some kuminga minutes or smthn
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 12:01 (two years ago) link
you cant run kuminga with draymond, youd have two offensive zeroes in a death lineup it just doesnt work. warriors might be out of options here
― micah, Friday, 3 June 2022 13:49 (two years ago) link
Looney plays alongside Draymond a lot though. Then again, Looney is also an MVP.
― Gianni Fursace (Leee), Friday, 3 June 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
Yah but Steph plays with them.
― Spottie, Friday, 3 June 2022 15:29 (two years ago) link
JJJ and morant left open to shoot threes was the plan. not sure they want horford shooting those same shots
― Spottie, Friday, 3 June 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
Dubs lost cuz I posted a prediction.
― DJI, Friday, 3 June 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
Warriors defense seemed really bad at times, like they were doing a drive and kick drill
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
yeah. i’m sure the response would be that letting horford, white, and pritchard shoot a bunch of threes is an acceptable defensive strategy vs the celtics, and the shooting will surely flip back in other direction to some degree. but like i posted last night boston just didn’t seem bothered really at all… 56 points in the first half and 40 points in the fourth quarter.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 3 June 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link
and also the warriors shot nearly as well as boston from three, their makes were just more concentrated in the first half idk i try not to take too much away from game 1s but that one left me pretty pessimistic about the warriors chances
― J0rdan S., Friday, 3 June 2022 16:40 (two years ago) link
Boston shut off a lot of the easy buckets in paint the Warriors generally get from all their movement. My impression was most of their buckets in the paint were from offensive rebounds rather than drives or cuts. Capt obvious says if the dubs can't figure out how to generate points in the paint they really are going to have to win as a jump shooting team - not a likely path to success.
― that's not my post, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:54 (two years ago) link
Gotta get Williams in foul trouble if they want to get into the paint.
― DJI, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:17 (two years ago) link
yeah. i’m sure the response would be that letting horford, white, and pritchard shoot a bunch of threes is an acceptable defensive strategy vs the celtics
― J0rdan S., Friday, June 3, 2022 12:32 PM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah i mean white sure but the other two youre drawing dead, maybe if you get a late quasi contest but idk both of them have good shot selection and will just swing it
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
rob still only looks about 70-80% - he’s not making passes like he can - but he got a few great blocks and his presence alone is a difference makeri dunno about the dubs pessimism, seems to me like they were leading most of the game and got burned on some unsustainable shooting
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
the thing i would worry about if i were the dubs is the celtics figuring out which defensive scheme doesnt give up wide open steph threes
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:22 (two years ago) link
i mean the celtics did get hot in the 4th but they also straight cooked the dubs, celtics were getting perfect looks and the dubs were getting none
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
dubs shooting before the 4th was also hot fwiw
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
that is true. and tatum was missing absolutely wide open looks. he’s usually hitting 4 or 5 more of those, that’s 10 points right there
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:26 (two years ago) link